President Obama apparently is leaving the door open to moving ahead with a military strike on Syria even if Congress votes against it, adding to the confusion over the presidents evolving position. The president, in a surprise decision Saturday, announced he would seek a vote in Congress on launching a military attack against the Assad regime. One senior State Department official, though, told Fox News that the presidents goal to take military action will indeed be carried out, regardless of whether Congress votes to approve the use of force.

Correct. He didn’t go hit the phones after the press conference. He went and played golf.
CBS reported:
Shortly after his statement, the president and Vice President Biden headed to Fort Belvoir in Virginia to play golf.

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posted on 08/31/2013 7:39:35 PM PDT
by ncfool
(Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)

No, they won’t. If the GOP votes for the strike, which risks a wider war, they will lose a substantial amount of their base and they will lose the House.
But maybe you’re right. The GOP does have a death wish. Just look at immigration.

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posted on 08/31/2013 7:43:21 PM PDT
by grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)

The legal consequences of going ahead after congress forbids it will be such that he will not do it.

You don't get it, my brother.

Obama REVELS in rubbing your nose in his lawlessness. He throws the LITERAL finger in meetings with Republicans. When he loses something, he doubles-down. Remember when Scott Brown's win damned Obamacare? He doubled-down and got it rammed through anyways, via Louis Slaughter and her 'Deem and Pass' manuever.

If there is a NO vote on a Syrian strike, he will proceed, and he will DARE anyone to do anything about it. Of course, after the eventual nuclear strikes on America, he won't be ruling over much, but he could really give a shit.

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posted on 08/31/2013 7:43:33 PM PDT
by Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)

Correct. He didn’t go hit the phones after the press conference. He went and played golf.
CBS reported:
Shortly after his statement, the president and Vice President Biden headed to Fort Belvoir in Virginia to play golf.

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posted on 08/31/2013 7:50:42 PM PDT
by ncfool
(Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)

Never underestimate the willingness of the republicans to cast themselves headlong right up Hussein’s rump rather than be described as a mean spirited, confederate lynch mob out to get America’s first mixed race Rodeo Clown president

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posted on 08/31/2013 7:53:28 PM PDT
by atc23
(The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)

New talking points next week: Liberal media will bring up the “politics stop at water’s edge” meme, so Republicans must support Obama. Democrats will point out the “hypocrisy” of Republicans supporting Bush on foreign policy but not Obama. Republicans will cave.

He will strike. The narrative will be that republicans voted for murdering children today and with that obstructionist vote they have left the president no choice but to move ahead with military action to protect woman and children.

RE :”One senior State Department official, though, told Fox News that the presidents goal to take military action will indeed be carried out, regardless of whether Congress votes to approve the use of force. “

OK, with me. Let Obama got it completely alone without allies or congress or even his liberal base. As GWB was warned and ignored :”You break it you own it’

Will Obama shutdown the government and cut-off the troops pay in the middle of an air-strike that he ordered on his own?

Obama doesnt need congress for delaying parts of O-care, or amnesty, or federal drug offenses, so why this? They should vote to tell him to pound sand.

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posted on 08/31/2013 7:56:05 PM PDT
by sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)

But when Israel is forced to use nukes, our embassies are on fire all over the world, Russia, Britain and China are all giving us a hard time because their oil sources are out of service, there will be repercussions.

There is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Eventually obumbler will reach that point simply because he does not know when too far is too far.

If he openly defies congress on this one, he could be impeached. Yes, I know the Senate will not, but there might be enough pressure from We the People, that enough ComDem Senators might actually do it.

Yeah, it is obvious. What’s also clear is that all his posturing has now put him in a position that is even more damaging to what little was left of his credibility before. Announcing he’s giving Congress a vote while simultaneously announcing he’s going to go ahead with the attack regardless of what Congress does completely cancels out any value the vote might have had in providing him cover. He’s so inept he can’t even pull off a good charade.

Boner will force a yes vote...Odumbo will fire missiles....innocent women and children will get killed... and Boner and Odumbo will sit down and have a good cry. The US will be the laughing stock of the world and the Mid East countries will band together and wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. Our economy tanks and we’re left in misery and poverty. That’s my optomistic thought for the day.

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posted on 08/31/2013 8:07:45 PM PDT
by ImNotLying
(The MSM bears a close resemblance to the world's oldest profession!)

I’m not sure Slaughter’s “deem and passed” was used. Rather, they reconciled in the Senate without rewriting anything (taking Pelosi’s bill as is), thus bypassing the filibuster. One of the reasons it’s an even bigger mess than expected. Some changes were allowed, involving taxes that can evade the filibuster rule, like the amendment for Bart Stupid promising to remove abortion from Obastardcare (They put it right back).

Congress comes back September 9. I suspect that BO is going to ask Boner and The Dim Bulb From Searchlight to vote on authorization for military action against Syria first, then, win or lose, hell attack on September 11 so nobody will bother to note that its the anniversary of Benghazi.

Congress comes back September 9. I suspect that BO is going to ask Boner and The Dim Bulb From Searchlight to vote on authorization for military action against Syria first, then, win or lose, hell attack on September 11 so nobody will bother to note that its the anniversary of Benghazi.

US Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Saturday said they could not support isolated military strikes on Syria that are not part of a bigger strategy.

“We cannot in good conscience support isolated military strikes in Syria that are not part of an overall strategy that can change the momentum on the battlefield, achieve the president’s stated goal of (Syrian President Bashar) Assad’s removal from power, and bring an end to this conflict, which is a growing threat to our national security interests,” they said in a statement. (Reuters)

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